[Info-vax] DCL Integer Overflow

[Simon Clubley]

On 2017-07-02, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
> Den 2017-07-02 kl. 23:41, skrev Simon Clubley:
>> On 2017-07-02, Robert A. Brooks <FIRST.LAST at vmssoftware.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> The thought is that DCL will always be the command parser, and some other
>>> language (likely open source) would be used for scripting.
>>>
>> 
>> Will you be running this scripting language as a normal user mode
>> (not supervisor mode) image without any privileges other than those
>> already granted to the user ?
>> 
>
> Isn't that how perl, Python and similar tools are run today?

Yes, they are AFAIK. (And that's a good thing.)

> And if so, why change anything?
>

Because I was wondering if VSI were planning to run it as a standalone
user mode image or as some tightly bound library linked directly into
DCL itself.

Simon.

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